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Re: Does your Therapist understand how important they » Pfinstegg

Posted by gardenergirl on September 3, 2004, at 0:09:24

In reply to Re: Does your Therapist understand how important they » gardenergirl, posted by Pfinstegg on September 2, 2004, at 12:30:39

Your therapist sounds great. It sounds like you are in a quite active place right now. I would love to be a fly on the wall in an analysis. I don't know if I would ever have the stamina to undergo the training, but there is a lot about the model that appeals to me.

My T brought up termination a couple of sessions ago. He said I appeared to be showing a "hallmark" of entering the termination phase. That is that I am less resistant of being open and talking about memories and thoughts and more resistant to the idea of giving up my dependence on him and on a few other significant people. I can see what he meant, as we were talking about the conflict between desiring someone to take care of me...what was it called? The Golden myth or fantasy? (gotta read that book someday!!!) and seeing the benefits of being independent or interdependent. For once, the idea of termination didn't scare the pants off of me (now there's an image....).

However, termination will take awhile. It's a phase of the therapy, and I expect it could take several months, if not the entire year I am still able to see him before I graduate (Crosses herself). Of course I just had to drop a doorknob bomb as I was wrapping up the session before last, which in some ways may be a resistance to termination on my part, or may be, as Daisy has suggested in another thread, the last big thing I need to work on. So I feel more in the middle phase again. We'll see...

Take care,
gg

 

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